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Magahy gets fourth lucrative contract

Laura Magahy, the businesswoman who once held lucrative contracts on three enormous state projects, has been given another state appointment, worth nearly 40,000, by Mary Coughlan, the tanaiste.

The minister for enterprise, trade and employment has appointed the former chief executive of Temple Bar Properties to a three-year term as chairperson of the Crafts Council of Ireland (CCoI). The position comes with a fee of 12,600 a year, plus expenses. Magahy, who is the managing director of MCO Projects Ltd, will be expected to chair ten meetings per annum in locations around the country.

The businesswoman, who didn't return calls last week, was contracted to manage three public-sector projects worth a combined 1 billion in the past decade.

At one point, Magahy & Co, the company she headed, was paid 127,000 a month to provide executive services to the Campus Stadium Ireland project, which included the construction of the National